Demay, the founder and cto of hawkeye 360. And hawkeye is an rf Data Analytics company. Tina harrington. Director of cigant at the nro. And Major General john shaw. United States Air Force who is the Deputy Commander of air force Space Command. Im going to have each of them do a short introduction to frame their mission and their priorities. After we hear from them, ill start a couple of rounds of questions. As chuck said, please get your questions ready. Ive already had a few pop up on the ipad. We certainly want to be able to answer your questions from the audience. So, chris, over to you. All right. Thank you, tish. First off, thank you to insa for hosting this incredible and important event. Tish, thanks for leading the panel. Again, chris demay. Im one of the founders and the chief Technology Officers for hawkeye 360. My background is in government. Spent 14 years both with nsa and nro, in fact, my last government boss is on the panel with me today. And from those experiences, i l
[inaudible conversations]tival tv is live coverage of the National Book festival continues. Thomas friedman will be down here later on our site taking your calls. Up that is coming up in an hour or so, two hours. You can go to booktv. Org to get the full schedule. Easier than listening to mr. Friedman, colin when we have that segment. Coming up next, you will hear from author Michael Lewis emma but in the meantime, we are pleased to be joined by one of 362 americans who has actually been in space and that is astronaut Leland Melvin. S calle mr. Melvin, you write that your book is called chasing space and you write that it had all begun with a dropped pass. Exactly. A dropped pass. I was a wide receiver on a running team and that means that they block a lot versus catching passes. We were at our homecoming game. I was running down the sideline. It was perfectly thrown in by hand and i dropped a pass in mym hands. The thing is, a scout is there for the university of richmond looking to s